RHEL 9 : curl (RHSA-2023:4139)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178430

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for curl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4139 advisory.

- curl: POST following PUT confusion (CVE-2022-32221)

- curl: HTTP multi-header compression denial of service (CVE-2023-23916)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL curl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4139.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?df2e642c

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135411

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167815

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4139

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 178430

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4139.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-minimal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32221, CVE-2023-23916

CWE: 440, 770

IAVA: 2022-A-0451-S, 2023-A-0008-S

RHSA: 2023:4139